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The Hawaii Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion on Wednesday declaring that its state constitution grants individuals absolutely no right to keep and bear arms outside the context of military service. Its decision rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, refusing to interpolate SCOTUS’ shoddy historical analysis into Hawaii law. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the ruling on this week’s Slate Plus segment of Amicus; their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Sure, right after we pass a law that allows gun owners to shoot anyone who sues them. That makes about as much sense as what you said.
Someone should have told Governor Abbot that. Granted it’s been struck down now…
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/24/texas-abortion-law-legal-challenges/
That’s exactly what I was referring to, though I had no idea it’s been struck down. Good to hear!
I figured as much, but clearly knowledge of that bit of the law never made it to the fox news crowd.
Are you sure the law has been overturned? I couldn’t find anything about it, but did see this from a couple months ago that speaks as if the law is still on the books: https://versustexas.com/texas-abortion-law/
In searching for the other link I saw that the specific part of the law that allows anyone to sue anyone involved with any abortion was struck down. I will look for it again and post if I can find it, but it might be a bit before I do.
Followup: I overly optimistically interpreted “apparently dismissed” in this context. Looks like at least one court refused to hear at least on case based on that aspect of the law.
Key Part Of Texas Abortion Law—That Anyone Can Sue—Apparently Dismissed By Court
Awesome, appreciate you looking into that!
No problem, thanks for the correction. 🙂
Yep that’s some dumb shit that they never should have done, I agree.